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<H1><A NAME="SECTION03120000000000000000">
Problems that LAPACK can Solve</A>
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<P>
LAPACK can solve systems of linear equations, linear least squares
problems, eigenvalue problems and singular value problems.
LAPACK can also handle many
associated computations such as matrix factorizations
or estimating condition numbers.

<P>
LAPACK contains <B>driver routines</B> for solving standard types of
problems,
<B>computational routines</B> to perform a distinct
computational task, and <B>auxiliary routines</B> to perform a certain
subtask or common low-level computation.  Each driver routine
typically calls a sequence of
computational routines. Taken as a whole, the computational routines
can perform a wider range of tasks than are covered by the driver
routines.
Many of the auxiliary routines may be of use to numerical analysts
or software developers, so we have documented the Fortran source for
these routines with the same level of detail used for the LAPACK
routines and driver routines.

<P>
Dense and band matrices are provided for,
but not general sparse matrices. In all areas, similar functionality
is provided for real and complex matrices.
See Chapter&nbsp;<A HREF="node19.html#chapcontents">2</A> for a complete summary of the
contents.

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